Description: Since the days when armies would catapault plague-ridden corpses over the ramparts of besieged cities, nearly anything has been deemed fair in the quest for domination. As Andrew Goliszek demonstrates in this chilling and compendious book, science has been called upon to kill people as often as it has to cure them. The grim catalogue of inhumanities committed in the name of science culminated with the gruesome Nazi experiments, but in very recent history our own government has sponsored experiments on human subjects without their full knowledge. And what lies ahead, as our lives -- our very DNA -- become accessible to those who maintain they are pursuing scientific knowledge for its own sake? While other books have documented some aspect of this critical and disturbing subject -- involving such topics as biological warfare, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering, and drug experimentation -- In the Name of Science is the first to give readers the whole picture, connecting the long history of scientific experimentation on humans to the very real threats we face today.

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